RAMBO. Tasty.

Posted by Todd Brown at 11:01am.

Posted in Film News , Action, USA & Canada.

So ... I’ve been doing some writing for Canadian cable net Showcase’s blog for the past few weeks, reviewing mostly stuff that’s more mainstream than what I tend to look at here and this week’s topic of discussion is Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo. My deal with Showcase says I can’t simply repost things written for them here but I can say that the film is really surprisingly good, a pure eighties throwback, yes, but one that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it pretty much flawlessly. It’s also enormously violent and doused in blood. Head over here for my much longer take on it.

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Garth 01/29/2008 @ 11:33am

I enjoyed the hell out of this movie.

That said, it was a terrible movie. It had some of the worst dialogue I have EVER heard (Benz’z speech at the beginning, ugh), one of the worst, cheesiest final scenes ever, a terrible plot, GODawful cgi blood, cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesy supporting ‘characters’ and nothing even closely resembling half a brain.

And if I were a more politically sensitive person, I would probably be deeply offended that Stallone is trying to pretend that there was a reason behind making this movie other than blowing the FUCK out of 200+ people.

But like I said, I enjoyed it immensely. One of the most violent movies I have seen in a long time.
Garth 01/29/2008 @ 11:36am

That is to say, I enjoyed the violence immensely. As a friend of mine said, if a scene didn’t have Rambo arrowing someone or stabbing/slashing someone or shooting someone, it was completely worthless.
Garth 01/29/2008 @ 11:45am

Oh, right. Also, there is some HORRENDOUS editing.
tigrbalm 01/29/2008 @ 10:03pm

I loved the mindless violence this film had to offer. If you’re going in for some sort of metaphysical revelation, then prepared to be disappointed, otherwise get ready for some testosterone pumping fun.

BTW Todd, according to the following chart, this film had the highest kills and kill rate of all 4 movies (you think?) at 236 killed at a rate of 3.04/minute

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/01/23/check-this-out-rambo-kill-chart/
Garth 01/29/2008 @ 11:32pm

I actually find it hard to believe that it ONLY had that many kills…